..We examined whether patients with hallucinations and delusions would demonstrate an externalising bias on a task that did not involve cognitive self-monitoring...

Superior temporal lobe dysfunction and frontotemporal dysconnectivity in subjects at risk of psychosis and in first-episode psychosis

Nicolas A CrossleySection of Neuroimaging, Division of Psychological Medicine, Institute of Psychiatry, King s College London, London, United KingdomHum Brain Mapp 30:4129-37. 2009

..However, the stage of the disorder at which these functional alterations occur is unclear. We addressed this issue by using functional MRI (fMRI) to study subjects in the prodromal and first episode phases of schizophrenia...

..This network is implicated in the inhibition of automatically primed stimuli and impairment of its function interferes with language processing and contributes to the production of incoherent speech...

Neural correlates of executive function and working memory in the 'at-risk mental state'